Global supply chains INDEX

Nowadays there are two of the hottest trends now among CSR executives are supply chains and collaboration among companies on sustainability. The latest example for these two comes from the apparel industry, where the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), a trade association representing more than a third of the global apparel and footwear market, unveiled the Higg Index, a new tool for sustainabihty measurement across the industry value chain. 

Supply chains are a hot management topic. Eyes are opening to a more global view of end-to-end material, information, and financial flows. As this introduction is written, two achievements exemplify the trend. Dell Computer has topped the Standard Poor s 500 index for its 88,918% value gain in the decade of the 1990s. Forbes magazine has crowned UPS as the 1999 "company of the year" for its exploding role in e-commerce. Each distinction is a variant on the supply chain theme. 

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